Chapter 1110

Actually, from the morning when Huang Baoguo and the others came and insisted on eating at the stove, it could be seen that Huang Baoguo and the others had an inferiority complex, only because of the tough attitude of Wang An's family did they agree to eat at the table.

So Wang An arranging them to live in the old house, although the most fundamental reason was Wang An's dislike for them, for Huang Baoguo and the others, it was exactly what they wanted.

If one were to put oneself in their shoes, no matter who was in Huang Baoguo and the others' position, they might only want to live in the side rooms or thatched huts of the employer's house, trying their best not to cause trouble for the employer.

Of course, the main thing was also not wanting to be annoying, because this could also be considered a kind of self-knowledge.

After resting for a little more than half an hour, everyone got up from the kang one after another and walked out of their respective rooms, and at this time, Comrade Wang Dazhu was already sharpening the sickle.

The old saying goes well, which is "sharpening the knife doesn't delay the work of cutting firewood," and as for going to the field to harvest crops, that is even more so.

If there isn't a sharp sickle, not only can the speed of harvesting wheat not be fast, but it is also very easy to cut one's hand with a dull knife.

That's right, it's easy to cut one's hand with a dull knife.

The reason for saying this is because when harvesting crops, a dull knife isn't easy to cut into the straw, in that case, the knife easily slips, and the middle of the straw is where people's hands are, so whenever the knife slips, the result for people's hands can be imagined.

One must believe that although a dull knife is damn strenuous to cut crop straw, if it cuts a person's hand, it is absolutely super fast, one touch and there's a cut, that would be strange.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Cuiyun also came over from home.

After sharpening the knife, Wang Dazhu and Wang An, father and son, separately started the four-wheeled cart and the walking tractor, and after everyone climbed onto the cart, the four-wheeled cart and the tractor walked toward the outside of the yard one after another.

In the busyness, time blinked and arrived in mid-October.

In these nearly 20 days, Wang An not only harvested wheat and rice for his own family, but also helped Shen Wei's family harvest wheat and rice, and finally helped Zhao Cuiyun's family harvest the corn.

There was no other way; besides her and her son, Zhao Cuiyun's family didn't even have a breathing animal, and large livestock naturally didn't exist either.

So for their family's situation, if they wanted to harvest the crops from the field, they could only rely on people carrying them on their backs, or exchange labor.

The "exchange labor" mentioned here is Zhao Cuiyun going to help families with large livestock work for two days, and then borrowing the other party's horse cart or mule cart to help pull the crops.

However, to tell the truth, wanting to exchange labor like this during the autumn harvest is actually a very, very difficult thing, because the autumn harvest also has another name called "emergency harvest."

In the south, emergency harvest is for fear of rain, so the grain won't be worth money if it gets damp, moldy, or sprouts, while in the north, emergency harvest is for fear of snow, which leads to the grain that hasn't been harvested in time being buried directly in the field.

So when your family is in a hurry to harvest grain, other families are also in a hurry; in this situation, who would exchange labor with you?

After harvesting the land, Wang An also took time to go into the mountains once and brought back the 6 guns and bullets hidden in the tree hole.

When taking the guns and bullets, Wang An also specifically went to look at the corpses of the 6 people, but the corpses of these six people had all disappeared; what kind of animal ate them, that was unknown.

After harvesting the land, Huang Baoguo, his son, and Er Gangzi went home once, and after harvesting the corn of their own family, they came back.

The main thing was that although the crops of Wang An's family were all harvested home, the subsequent threshing, that is, threshing the wheat and rice, also needed manpower.

Moreover, besides these, Wang An's family also had to collect a large amount of dry grass; a small amount wouldn't do.

The main thing was that Wang An's family had too many livestock; if they only relied on the wheat straw and rice straw after threshing, the livestock at home wouldn't have enough to eat.

Before the land was divided to households, the straw in the field was basically in a state that no one wanted; either it was piled at the edge of the field to rot naturally, or it was waiting for the spring when the straw was dry to burn it with a fire, so at that time, there was no shortage of dry grass, and one could just pull it home.

But starting from this year, the vast majority of families in the village bought large livestock such as mules, horses, donkeys, and cows for farming, and families raising sheep for small-scale farming were even more numerous.

With this, the straw that no one wanted in previous years became the dry grass that the vast majority of families had to collect.

There was no other way; in this place of Heilongjiang, as soon as winter enters, snow becomes a common occurrence, snow is everywhere in the mountains and fields, grazing is basically impossible, and crop straw becomes a winter necessity for livestock such as mules, horses, donkeys, cows, and sheep.

So before the snow falls, large-scale farmers like Wang An's family have to go to places where grass and trees are relatively lush, such as wild grass meadows, to harvest grass.

Actually, when digging wild vegetables and picking mushrooms ended, Wang Dazhu and his wife, along with Shen Wei, had been harvesting grass, but the grass harvested in those days was far from enough for the consumption of Wang An's family for a winter.

Just like that, before the heavy snow fell, Wang An's family had collected a large amount of dry grass, and the livestock at home would definitely have more than enough to survive a winter.

And today is the day Wang An pays Huang Baoguo, his son, and Er Gangzi their wages.

According to the previous agreement, Huang Baoguo and Er Gangzi each get 5 mao per day, and Huang Zhong gets 3 mao per day.

Not counting the two days they went home to harvest corn, the three of them worked for a total of 16 days, so Huang Baoguo and his son got a total of 12 yuan and 8 mao, and Er Gangzi got 8 yuan.

However, Wang An gave Huang Baoguo and his son 16 yuan, and gave Er Gangzi 10 yuan.

Wang An said to the three with a smile:

"Uncle Huang, Uncle Gangzi, you guys have also been quite hard-working these days, and the extra money is a bonus for you, you guys can buy 2 jin of wine to drink, hahahaha..."

When Huang Baoguo and Er Gangzi saw that there was more money, Huang Baoguo waved his hand and said:

"Young Master Little An, this can't be done, this can't be done, we just take the money for the work we do, besides, the food in your house is too good, it made me and Er Gangzi fat."

After Huang Baoguo finished speaking, Er Gangzi also said:

"Yeah, Young Master Little An, even if you didn't give me wages, I feel that this work is very comfortable, three full meals a day, and meat at every meal, and I can drink a cup at night, I'm not afraid of you laughing, I've lived for more than 30 years, even before the New Year, our family hasn't eaten like this, I want to keep working at your house and not leave."

After Er Gangzi finished speaking, Huang Baoguo also said with emotion:

"Yeah, if only I could keep working at your house."

It could be seen that these two people really didn't want to leave, and weren't just saying nice things for Wang An to hear.

The main thing was that after more than 10 days of eating and drinking, the three of them had indeed gained quite a bit of fat, completely different from the sallow complexion before.

(End of chapter)